Thérèse Raquin
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Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thérèse Raquin canonical | 16 |
| Thérèse Raquin (1873 play) | 1 |
| Thérèse Raquin (1953 film) | 1 |
| Thérèse Raquin (1980 film) | 1 |
| Thérèse Raquin (2001 film) | 1 |
| Thérèse Raquin (character) | 1 |
| Thérèse Raquin (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545120 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thérèse Raquin Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, Thérèse Raquin]
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A.
La Religieuse
La Religieuse is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot that critiques religious institutions through the story of a young woman forced into convent life.
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B.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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D.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thérèse Raquin Target entity description: Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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A.
La Religieuse
La Religieuse is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot that critiques religious institutions through the story of a young woman forced into convent life.
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B.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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D.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
naturalist novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film
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opera ⓘ radio drama ⓘ stage play ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
adultery
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consequences of crime ⓘ determinism ⓘ guilt ⓘ murder ⓘ passion ⓘ psychological torment ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serial ⓘ |
| firstPublicationVenue | L’Artiste ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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naturalism ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
crime and punishment
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marriage ⓘ moral decay ⓘ psychology of criminals ⓘ working-class life in Paris ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Honoré de Balzac
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scientific determinism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Naturalism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
early major work of Émile Zola
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key text of French naturalism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Camille Raquin
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Laurent ⓘ Madame Raquin ⓘ Thérèse Raquin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (character)
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| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableAdaptation |
In Secret (2013 film)
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Thérèse Raquin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (1873 play)
Thérèse Raquin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (1953 film)
Thérèse Raquin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (1980 film)
Thérèse Raquin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (2001 film)
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| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Les Rougon-Macquart
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surface form:
Rougon-Macquart cycle (sometimes associated)
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| placeOfPublication | Paris ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1867 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ambroise Dupont ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Thérèse Raquin Description of subject: Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (character)
this entity surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (1873 play)
this entity surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (1953 film)
this entity surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (1980 film)
this entity surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (2001 film)
subject surface form:
In Secret
subject surface form:
In Secret
subject surface form:
In Secret
this entity surface form:
Thérèse Raquin (novel)
subject surface form:
Naturalism (literature)